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6 unusual facts about containerization


Containerization

Henry Robinson Palmer described an early principle of containerization.

Cy A. Adler

In early December, 1982, Adler placed an ad in the Voice announcing a public walk along the Hudson River from Battery Park to Riverside Park, which at the time consisted largely of docking facilities abandoned due to Containerization.

Lingfield railway station

This closed on 1 October 1971 as bananas were now containerised and transported by road.

Luca Maria Gambardella

He is also Chief Scientific Officer of the IDSIA spin-off AntOptima, whose commercial applications of 'Ant Colony Optimization' include vehicle routing for large commercial truck fleets, and the management of container flow through the largest Mediterranean container terminal.

Maranatha Volunteers International

The galvanized steel frame and roof of the church are manufactured at a facility in Dodge Center, Minnesota, containerized and shipped on-site where it is assembled by volunteers and local personnel in one day.

One of Us, One of Them

They train in an empty shipping container, and when Meredith asks why she wants to learn how to fight, Claire replies that she "wants to help people".


Merchants Despatch

MDT also entered the Intermodal freight transport business, and purchased 572 container flats (intended mainly for use in mail service on passenger trains) between 1958 and 1965.


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